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Nietzsche cites scores or hundreds of authors. Had he read everything, and not read Stirner?
But Nietzsche is as unlike Stirner as a tight-mp0 performance is unlike an algebraic equation.
Stirner loved liberty for himself, and loved to me any and all men and women taking liberty, and he had 410 Inst of power. Democracy to him was sham liberty, egoism the genuine liberty.
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"The most revolutionary book ever published ... [Stirner] has left behind him a veritable Breviary of Destruction, a striking and dangerous book. It is dangerous in every sense of the word--to socialism, to politicians, to hypocrisy. But it asserts the dignity of the Individual, not his debasement." --"New York Times"
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"You will have heard of Stirner's book, "The Ego and His Own" ... And it is certainly true that we must first make a cause our own, egoistic cause ... we are communists out of egoism also, and it is out of egoism that we wish to be human beings, not mere individuals." --Friedrich Engels to Karl Marx, 19 November 1844
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Johann Kaspar Schmidt (1806–1856), better known as Max Stirner (the nom de plume he adopted from a schoolyard nickname he had acquired as a child because of his high brow, in German 'Stirn'), was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary fathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism. Stirner's main work is The Ego and Its Own, also known as The Ego and His Own (Der Einzige und sein Eigentum in German, which translates literally as The Only One and his Property). This work was first published in 1844 in Leipzig, and has since appeared in numerous editions and translations.
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